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Abstract

THE International Geodetic Conference will assemble in Berlin on October 20. Its principal business will be to deliberate on the best method of executing the resolutions arrived at at Rome and Washington in 1883 and 1884 respecting the actual measurement of a degree on the earth's surface, and likewise in reference to a scientific survey of the European continent. The adoption by all nations of Greenwich as the first meridian, in accordance with the decision taken at Washington, is to be strictly enforced in practice. The introduction of international normal time, on the other hand, has had to be postponed, owing to insuperable practical difficulties connected with ordinary business life. In order to promote the project of any international survey of the entire globe, it is proposed to establish a Central Geodetic Office in Berlin.